Boston College High School - Forbian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FDWARD FDDIF MARTIN Ed dld not profess to be able to run fast or far but he could throw the shot fast and far almost as fast and far as he could throw runners durlng the football season He used the football team merely as a trallllllg for the shot put Maybe that was why the foe dld not rehsh bemg tackled by h1m Not a champ Ed conslstently garnered polnts for the Maroon and Gold team so that no meet went by but that he brought home at least one pomt for the team So long Ed contlnue your work and the tltle wlll be yours GEORGE ONEY ONEIL And a mighty man was he George the kmg of Boston s schoolboy shotputters Semor was hls first year of competltlon When first he trled to wreck the cellmg of the gym he tossed the plll forty feet Every day then for a week he added a couple of lnches to hls mark until they had to put hlm out of doors to practlce to save the celllng and Hoor above the gym In every meet he came home first What a star he w1ll be for any college ln this w1ll surely brlng him renown ALBERT AL OSHEA It IS told that at one lnterscholastlc meet a group of the leadmg' dash men ln the clty re kmg vshat O Shea of BC Hlgh looked hke Thls was after he had beaten them ln the race One sa1d D1d you see that palr of splkes way ahead of you? Well that was hlm For that was about all any run ner ever saw of Al when he was set to Wm A fast consistent and heady runner ln the dash and relay he has brought many an many a pomt to our total that the score Wl have to tell smce he wont even mentlon lt H1s klndness encouragement and cheerfulness made h1m even more valuable to the squad He was a popular and beloved team mate Iago Ono Hundred Yaris fum Cl 9! , . , KC 77 ' l l ' -x KC I, ' ' 9 ' ll 77 ' . , , . Cl 7 71 ! KK ' l! ! ! . , . 7 event! His strength, consistency and color If 77 Y we as' ' 'Q ' . . ' . . ,, . ' 3 ' Y ' Q! . , - Ki !7 , . . , d 'll . , . . 9 l P J ,V I I A .I '

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CAPTAIN JIMMY DEVLIIN Jlmmy wlth hls smxle and cheerful confi dence and courage would have made one of the best competing captalns we had lf lnjurxes to hlS ankle had not kept hlm out of compe tltlon durmg' Senior As It was even before hlS ankle was even half healed he lnslsted on leadlng hls team ln the Jump The pam was terrlnc as hls dlstorted face often showed and hls great heart was sad when he saw lesser men beatlng hlm at helghts he had achieved m first vear But he would not gave up and we have a noble example of B C Hlgh courage to cherxsh all our days All hall to Jlmmy ' THOMAS TOM BARRY Broad Jumpers were scarce ln the begmmng of Senior year and the coach saw all the pomts m thls event golng to opposing schools But Tom Barry with the Splrlt of 28 was not of the same mlnd so he loosened up h1s legs and put on a track suit and entered compe 1 event dld not go to other schools He 1orced all the foe to stretch themselves to the llmlt and but for hlS lnexperlence would have come 'lW'lV with the tltle ln the final meets IOHN JOHNNY DONAHUT Thus tall and lanky vouth was the sensatmn of the track season as a Junlor an Intermcdl ate and 1 Senlor Llke clastxc lands those logs of hls stretched OVCI the course to fre quently carry home the bacon for B C Hlgh The blgger and better the competltxon the bet ter he llked It So good was he that he wls elected to captaln the team whlle he was stall a Junlor and how he led hxs team to vlctorx Even as he was always a xlctor ln hlgh school so we expect to see hlm smlllngly capture all honors In the colleglate 600 Page One Hundred Slxty four V 44 n 1 as ' rv ' ' ' - , X . I . Y X v .... S I ' 1- . , , ' -' , ' .': ' , ' xx ' ar 66 i! u H ' - - J , , 7 7 l , G. N' . . 4. U - tion in this event. Thus all the points in this 1 , . . . 1 K I l , I X I , n n ' it PY 2 . . ' ' , 2 '- - - z . ' '. ' 2 r s ' z . 4 K .' K x X ' r I- , ' ' . X 2. . V . . Y. Y. . . 1 Q ' ' ll I! I . , , n A l'

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WILLIAM BILL REARDON Thls Smlllng' and modest young man was the fastest man on the football team and he bethought hlmself ln h1s senlor year that slnce the team was badly 1n need of runners he should take a try Only thls apparent dxre need of men could posslbly brlng out 'Blll because he thmks too httle of the ab1l1t1es others pralse In the dash then he started to walk over O Sheas heels untll finally he had the sat1sfact1on of beatlng hlm ln the Cam brldge meet What a star he would have been had he come out sooner' JOSEPH JOE ROGERS In thlrd year Joe began to attract atten tion by hls fine runmng 1n the 1 000 and ln the beglnmng of Semor he had found hls place as the best of the 1 000 men 1n the Semor d1v1s1on Just as he was about to take advantage of hls speed and stamlna for the benefit of B C Hlgh slckness took hold of hlm and all further track competltlon was for fightmg fimsh he supplxed made hxm a brlght and colorful figure Somedav hls shlp wlll surely come ln JAMES JIMMY LEONARD All hall to the kmgpm of all managers Hmlllhg' Jlmmy Leonard from South Boston our track manager wlthout peer the source of our troubles and our Joys When defeat would overtake us he would smlle and smg awav ou1 sorrows ln hls own lmmltable way when we were XlCtOI'l01lq he would glory wlth us and slng a paean of trlumph That was Jlmmy Always accommodating' always sympathetu' always helpful alvxays smlllng and slnglng To hlS pleasant 1nHuence we owe a whole lot of our happiness on the squad Page Om' Hundred bury sux ll !7 , I . . , . ,, . O 7 3 ' ll 31 ' X Cl Il - ' ' ' ' ll Y! 1 I ll YY ' 7 . . . , bidden. His tireless and long stride and the ll 77 1 ' ' Il ' ,Y . . , Y 7 ' , H y V. . L . ' , ' cc - vv ' Y 'I